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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| An Introduction to the Soviet Political System | |
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| "Introduction," from Soviet Politics, 1917-1991 | |
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| "Terror as a System of Power" | |
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| "Soviet Stability and its Sources" | |
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| The Collapse of the Soviet Union | |
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| "What was Socialism and Why Did it Fall?" | |
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| "Glasnost Gutted the Party, Democratization Doomed the State: Political Liberalization and the Soviet Disintegration" | |
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| "Causes of the Collapse of the USSR" | |
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| Core Tasks for Postcommunist Russia | |
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| "Crucial Junctures and the Demise of Democracy in Russia" | |
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| "The Democratization of Russia in Comparative Perspective" | |
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| "Ten Myths About Russia: Understanding and Dealing with Russia's Complexity and Ambiguity" | |
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| The Economy: Market Capitalism or Institutionalized Corruption? | |
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| "A Normal Country: Russia after Communism" | |
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| "The Triumph of Bureaucratic Capitalism" | |
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| from "Comrade Criminal" and "The Criminal State" | |
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| The Executive and the Legislature | |
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| "Liberal Technocrats as an Adornment of the State" | |
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| "Inside the Putin Court: A Research Note" | |
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| "Majority Control and Executive Dominance: Parliament-President Relations in Putin's Russia" | |
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| Political Parties | |
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| "Party Politics in Russia: From Competition to Hierarchy" | |
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| "Political Opposition in Russia: A Dying Species?" | |
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| "Russia's Client Party System" | |
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| from "Symptoms of the Failure of Democracy in Russia" | |
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| Elections | |
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| from "Corrupting the Elections: Enter the Oligarchs" and �Abandoning Democracy: Anointing a Successor" | |
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| "Russian Elections: An Oxymoron of Democracy" | |
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| from "Symptoms of the Failure of Democracy in Russia" | |
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| Nationalism and Chechnya | |
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| "The Specter of Russian Nationalism" | |
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| "Chechnya: A Dirty War 1999-2002" | |
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| "[Conclusion]" | |
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| The Media | |
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| "Dictatorship Becomes the Only Game in Town" | |
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| from "Symptoms of the Failure of Democracy in Russia" | |
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| "Constrained or Irrelevant: The Media in Putin's Russia" | |
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| "Russia: Why Do Journalists Die?" | |
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| "Rebirth of Russian Nationalism" | |
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| "Remembering Paul Klebnikov: Journalism of Intimidation" | |
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| "All the News the Kremlin Thinks is Fit to Print" | |
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| About the Editor | |